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 5 Tom. For what did he beat you? was it for your madneſs and fooliſh tricks: Teag Dear ſhoy, it was not ;- but for being too inquiſitive, and going ſharply about buſineſs Firſt, be ſent me to the poſt office, to inquire if there was any, letters for him; ſo when I came there, ſaid, is their any letters here for my maſter to-da?. Then they aſked who was, my maſter; fi, farid it is very bad manners in you to aſk 237 gentleman's name; at this they laughed, mocking me, and ſaid, they could give me none, if I would not tell my maſter's name; ſo I returned to my maſter, and told him the impadence of the fellow, who would give me no' letters unleſs I would tell him your name, maſter. My maſter at this flew in a paſſion, and kicked me down fairs, faying. go, you rogue, and tell my name directly, how car the gentleman give letters, when he knows not who is aſking for them. Then I returned and told my maſter's name, lo they told there was one for him, I looked at it, being very ſmall, and aſking the price of it, they told me it was fix pence, ſix-pence, ſaid I, will you take fix pence for that ſmall thing, and ſelling big. ger, ones for two pence; faith I am not ſuch a big fool; you think to cheat me now, this is not a con- fcionable way of dealing, Pil acquaint my maliar with it firſt : ſo I came and told my matter how they would have fix pence for his letter, and was felling bigger ones for two. pence; he took up my head and broke his care with it, calling me a thou- ſand fools, faying, the man was more juſt than to take any thing but the right for it, but I was ſure there was none of them right, buying and ſelling ſuch dear penny-worth. So I came again for my dear fix-pence letter; and as the fellow was fhuffling through a parcel of them, ſeeking for it again, to make the beſt of a dear market, I pickt up two, and home I comes to my maſter, thinking he would be pleaſſed with what I had done ; now, ſaid I, maſter,